TheHitchhikers GuideTo The Galaxy

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Something to consider...

You have to realise some things about the beach he was simming on. It's right next to the Port Phillip Heads, very turbulent waters. Also the beach is next to the old Point Nepean fort, which is covered with unexploded land mines.

So very true

So very true

Don't Australian Prime Ministers have bodyguards? If a shcool kid needs a hall pass to visit the lavatory, doesn't the PM need to mention to somebody, "By the way, if [war breaks out|the stock market crashes|my wife calls], I'll be down at the beach"?

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Yes, in America even the President's daughter gets a Secret Service bodygaurd. A friend of mine is attending Stanford and says that he has, in fact, seen young Ms. Clinton, and that one of HIS friends had a nasty run in with a Secret Service officer because she'd accidentally gotten between him and Chealse (Clinton, that is). So why no bodygaurd for the Austrailian head of state?

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And thus the fatal flaw of the Holt Administration is revealed. He often told people he was down at the beach - but this was usually a ruse to protect the reputation of some young chicky-babe. How ironic, the one time he actually was at the beach, no one believed him.

How does one honour the memory of such a leader? A man who drowned while in office. In Australian style - you name a swimming pool after him! The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool in Northcote, Melbourne. And so it goes.

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